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Poles chase away winter by burning and drowning dolls

by Anna Maria Jakubek AFP Global Edition

Mar 21, 2013 15:32 EDT

Clutching a gaudy homemade doll in flames, students gathered Thursday on a frosty footbridge in central Poland to toss it into the river -- an ancient rite repeated across the country every March 21.

Paul McCartney to kick off world tour in Poland

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Mar 20, 2013 17:26 EDT

Paul McCartney will kick off a world tour in Warsaw on June 22, four days after he turns 71, the former Beatle's official website annouced Wednesday.

New Jewish museum in Poland unveils synagogue roof

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Mar 13, 2013 14:33 EDT

It is not as ornate the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, but a life-sized replica of the polychrome ceiling of an 18th-century synagogue inspired awe as it was unveiled in the Polish capital.

New Jewish museum in Poland unveils synagogue roof

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Mar 12, 2013 22:52 EDT

It is not as ornate the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, but a life-sized replica of the polychrome ceiling of an 18th-century synagogue inspired awe as it was unveiled in the Polish capital.

Polish Catholics want new pope to bring continuity with a twist

by Damien Simonart AFP Global Edition

Mar 12, 2013 13:07 EDT

As the Vatican prepares for the election of a new pontiff, Polish Catholics are hoping that Benedict XVI's successor will be a conservative, but a more reformist one.

Nuclear group Areva insists public trusts sector

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Mar 12, 2013 01:41 EDT

Two years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, the head of French group Areva, a leading company in the sector, insisted that public confidence in atomic energy has been re-established.

Fourth French soldier killed in Mali

by Dominique Chabrol AFP Global Edition

Mar 06, 2013 16:25 EST

Clashes between French troops and Islamist fighters in Mali killed a French soldier and around 10 rebels, defence officials said Wednesday, as President Francois Hollande claimed the operation had wiped out "terrorist kingpins".

'Terrorist kingpins' killed in Mali mountains: Hollande

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Mar 06, 2013 15:55 EST

French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday that top Islamic extremist leaders hiding out in a northern Mali mountain range where French troops are deployed, had been killed.

Gay rights mostly out of reach in central, eastern Europe

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Feb 11, 2013 12:31 EST

Ania and Yga have been inseparable for the last 17 years, living together as a couple in the Polish capital Warsaw but their love is seen as second class in this deeply Roman Catholic country.

Inaugural European Games 'will be innovative'

by Pirate Irwin AFP Global Edition

Feb 06, 2013 23:02 EST

The inaugural European Games being hosted by Baku in 2015 will be about being different and innovative, the president of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) Pat Hickey told AFP in an interview.

Poland relaunches euro debate as zone tackles crisis

by Michel Mrozinski AFP Global Edition

Jan 29, 2013 23:54 EST

Poland has reopened debate on a target date for its eurozone entry, after having played wait-and-see since 2009 when crisis struck the European single currency.

Jozef Glemp, former head of Church in Poland, dies

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Jan 23, 2013 18:17 EST

Jozef Glemp, the cardinal who served as the head of the Church in deeply Catholic Poland from 1981 to 2009, died Wednesday after a long battle with lung cancer, a spokesman said. He was 83.

Cameron's delayed EU speech set for Wednesday

by Danny Kemp AFP European Edition

Jan 21, 2013 11:11 EST

Prime Minister David Cameron will give his long-awaited speech on the future relationship with the EU on Wednesday in London, his spokesman said.

Cameron's speech was to warn of British drift to EU exit

by Danny Kemp AFP Global Edition

Jan 17, 2013 19:19 EST

Britain could drift out of the European Union unless the bloc meets key challenges, Prime Minister David Cameron was to have said in a speech on Friday that has been postponed by the Algeria hostage crisis.

Hitler statue in Holocaust site stirs controversy

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Jan 04, 2013 16:43 EST

Poland's chief rabbi on Friday voiced outrage over a statue of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler kneeling at a Holocaust site in Warsaw, part of an installation by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

'Invisible Exhibition' opens eyes to blindness

by Stanislaw Waszak AFP Global Edition

Dec 26, 2012 22:42 EST

The darkness is total. Mundane gestures suddenly become complicated. How do you find the door to your room, cook a meal or cross the road?

Boxing for bread: a forgotten story from Auschwitz

by Maja Czarnecka AFP Global Edition

Dec 26, 2012 00:28 EST

The memory of Prisoner Number 77 still brings hope to the heart of Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz Sobolewicz as he remembers how his friend boxed for bread in the notorious Nazi German camp.

Poland braces for economic slowdown

by Michel MROZINSKI AFP Global Edition

Dec 23, 2012 01:23 EST

Proud of having been the only EU member state to keep growing as the crisis torpedoed economies across the bloc, Poland is bracing for a slowdown in 2013 as exports suffer and austerity measures bite.

Poland braces for economic slowdown

by by Michel MROZINSKI AFP Global Edition

Dec 22, 2012 21:15 EST

Rabobank in push to register merger with Polish BGZ

By Staff Reporter AFP Global Edition

Dec 20, 2012 05:06 EST

Dutch bank Rabobank said on Thursday it would push to register its control of Bank Gospodarki Zywnosciowej of Poland by the end of next year, despite plans to reduce its interest in the Warsaw-based BGZ.